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Geology of a Portion of the Hand Mine, Argenta Mining District, Beaverhead County, Montana Montana Tech Library Digital Commons @ Montana Tech Bachelors Theses and Reports, 1928 - 1970 Student Scholarship Spring 5-1955 Geology of a portion of the Hand Mine, Argenta Mining District, Beaverhead County, Montana John Thomas Richards Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.mtech.edu/bach_theses Part of the Geological Engineering Commons, and the Geology Commons GEOLOGY OF A PORTION OF THE HAND MINE, ARGENTA lUNING DISTRICT, BEAVERHEAD COUNTY, MONTANA. A Thesis Presented to The De artment of Geology Montana School of Mines __ 26764 In !'artial Fulf:Ulment o£ the Requirements for the Degree Bachelor of Science in Geological Engineering by John Thomas Richards Nay 1955 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Abstract ........................................................... ] Introduction •.••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 2 Purpose and Scope ........................................... 2 wcality 2 Aclmowledgements ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 0 4 General Geolo .................................................... 4 Character and Distribution of the Rocks ..................... 4 Sed.im.entary- Rocks ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 4 Igneo s Rocks ............................................... 6 Strtlctllr e 7 Detailed Geology ................................................... 8 Structure .................................................... 8 Low gle Tabular Vein ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 8 High-,an.gle Fa1.l1..ts 101 Post lineral Fa1.l1..tine ................................ 1] Displacements ••••••••••••.••..•••.•••.•.••••••••••••• 12 r,n ..'-.,,.,-1 Con .." . 12 eral zation .............. ................................ 13 Oxidation ••..••.....•..•.....•..•...•...•..••••••....•.•.••• 14 Conclus ons ......................................................... 17' Recommendations For Future Develo ement ..................... 18 Bibliography •..••..............•••.••.•.•..•...•...•.....•••.•.•••• 19 LIST QE ILLUSTRATIONS Page Plate 1. Index Ma of Beaverhead C01mty, M:mtana, Sho~rlng Location of the Argenta l~ing District ••o••••••••• 3 Plate 2. Geology Hap of a portion of t e Argenta ~tining District ••••• o•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 5 Plate 3. Geology Man of a port on of the Hand ~tlne •••••••••••••• 20 I ABSTRACT The HandMine is located in the Argenta Mining District near the town of Argenta. The area surrounding the Handl1ine is char!l-cterized by intense thrusting, folding, and igneous activity. The igneous activity consists of quartz monzonite stocks of probable Eocene age. These stocks are believed to "be closely related to the Boulder Batholith 30 miles to the northeast. Hississip ian and Pennsylvanian sedimentary are in contact with one of t ese small stocks at Argenta. The Amsdenformation of Pennsylvanian age forms the country rock at the HandMine. The Amsden formation or~ginally consisted of interbedded calcareous shales and limestones, which have been metamorphosedto hornfels and re-crysta]lized limestone locally. The ore bodf.es at the HandHine are found on north and northwest trending faults and in a brecciated zone in the bedding. The·ore consists of cerussite and minor amounts of galena and anglesi tee The area ed by the author is in the southeast portion of the mine and differs from the rest of the mine in that no commercial ore has been found. he ,\-lI'iter concludes that the steep faulting and flat- lying bodf.es are of two different ages, and that intense oxidation has altered the ore minerals to p.lumbojar-osd.tie, 2 INTRODUCTION PURPOSE AND SCOPE The field work consisted of mapping, with a Brunton compass and tape, several hundred feet of drifts and crosscuts in the south~ east portion of the HandNine as shown by Plate 3. This portion of the mine contains lo~grade lead ore, but has the same structural relationships as the commercial ore bodies. This particular area was mapped to bring out the struetID"al re1ationshipffi and to use these relationships to explain the ore genesis. The ultimate purpose is to find more iDle ore for production. LOCALITY The Hand Mine is located in the NW-} section of T. 6 S., R. l~ W., and is situated on a 10,\.[ hill a few hundred yards to the northt·Test of the to" of Argenta in the Argenta Mining District, Beaverhead County, l>bntana. It can be reached by 14 miles of country road from Dillon, lbntana P ate shows the location of the Argenta Mining District. , ,OEFR /"oD6£ co., ) S/LVE~ "OW co. J C-., \ \ I \, \ , \ \ \ I L__ ,..J r \ "17,\ -\ \../-\. ..J.... N -s_ , o o J-VDEX /V1AP o,c- L.O<:'ATI'ON OF THE A~GcA./rA 4 ACKNOWLEDGEI-1ENTS The \vriter wishes to express his'appreciation to William Hand and his family for their co-operation with the field ~rk; also to professors W.S.l1arch and R.R.Reid for their assistance and counsel dur-Ingthe preparation of this :ueport; and to'Mr. Ted Eyde vIDO assisted the writer with the field work. GENERAL GmWGY CHARACTER AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE ROCKS The sedimentary rocks jm the vicini t of the Hand Nine consist of Paleozoic limestones, shales, and quartzites that have been locally metamorphosed into marbles, hornfels, and quartzites alone the contact of a small i'tzmonzonite tock, These sedimentary rocks have been strongly folded and thrusted Plate 2 sho~ a geologic map of the region surrounding the SEDTI-!ENTARYROCKS. Shennon (7) has mapped the rocks at Argenta as Pa eozoic limestones, undiferenti ted. He inc udes in the Paleozoic limestones the Tilden, Ermont, razer, d }~dison limestones. The Tilden imestone tent ve corre ted ,·liththe C rian Silver rill, Hasmark, d Red on formations of the Phi i s q dzang'Le, and t e Ermont fo tion is correlated with the efferso formation of the Three Forks re on. Sh~non does not name the limestone forming the country rock at the and Mineo < -~I(;----- I J I c < ( o e < ~ W I- 2 o 0 o It! 0 N II• .., ;;, 0 .... < '. 0 .J ( o - 0 J .., I\( :> Q ~ ~ .J ( 0 ~ UI ~ u 0 o f) !! } z v , :s ( e , o 2 I d)~ « I 6 ~wers (6) 0 the other h d, in later'report, has deferentiated between t e Paleozoic roc s and identifies the limestone at the Hand :Mineas the Pennsylvanian Amsden formation. ese formations lie on the east limb of the broad Iumbo Lt dt. antd,cine vThichplunges' to the So tho These Paleo zoic formations re underlain b Pre-cambrian Beltian roc<s which dip to the north. Lec the e P leozoic formations dip to t e southeast. IG sots ROCKS . Theon ifl1eous rock n te immediate vicinitys the small toc of quartz monzoniteo It is described by Shennon (7) as grey and medium to coarse-erained ,4th biotite, hornblende, and magnetite constitutin t e of the dark minerals. It is commonly believed to be 0 t °er of ~he Be der t olith to t e north. (7)(9) At t e Iron Mt. ,fine1000 ft to the VTestof the Hand ·finethe gneous contact at a dept of 150 f dip 500 ,b e dip decreases \.Jit increasing de h. (9) The q r z monzo i e is exposed in gulches and sh :its e nort 0 d 0 tcrops reoin t,· miles 0 the north. - " 7 STRUCTURE Tare abou Argenta is char cteri:zed by intense folding and thrusting. Along he f the FI nnbo t • anti line numerou. 10 r a gre thrust are foun , the 'rges f ese, he Kelly Thrust, four mi e to the 1"estof the Hand Mine, s been tr ced a 'ong the ike fo 2-:- mile. e elly thrust otrjJ{es J.:.s d c rr e Be s er P eozOic arid Me<azoic strat • The Ermo t thrus wit E-:! strike outcrops 1", miles to e 0 h of t HandNine. The Ermont thrust carries C rboniferous' s er Pa'Leocene pyroc .stic rocks. (6) l.zy-ershas no ed the fo· 101.dngperlo c of folding and faultingo (6) 1. te Pre-c:runbr' e ti sediments ere folded by faul.t of' ee i en before depoe ·tion of mid e Cambri ediments. 2. " ddle Cambrian rocks and under ying Beltian rocks were lock faulted and Localily fo ded beror the depo tion of upper ambrian rocks. 3. Mi d a fo ding occurred dm-ing post Triassic-pr&'upper J ssic era fo 1. interval. 4. Fa' g at the end of C et eo s time s fo o ed by stro fa ding and t s g g the Eocene epo .. 5. e a gestion t t minor additio 1 up lift and fo din 'I1J.!XY have resulted from the on of p monic igneous masses after most of the f ting and prio to de osit on of the lowell'" Oligoc e volcani rocks •. 8 6. Later steep' faults cut the Oligocene volcanic rocks. The later steep faulting forms t"l0 distinct systems, one system strikes I-JW-5E, and the cvther strikes N-J. These fauJlts do not follow any previous structural patterns. Myerj..6)states that· a; period of steep faulting follows each period oJi thrusting. In the vicinity ~£ the HandMine these faults' cut into the qtm.rtz monzonite and are therefore younger than the intrusion. The north and northwest steep faul ts' contain the principal ore bodies in the area. DETAILED GIDLOGY At the HandMine there are several_processes whieh fODmedthe present ore bodd es; These are: folding, thrusting, fauLting, metamorphism, mi:neraIization, and oxidation. These prccesaea have been studied by- the wi ter in order to gain an understanding of the genesis 0£ the orebody. STRUCTURE In the area mapped there appears to be t'wo' main types of faults, as can be seen :tn Plate' 3. The llow.:.a.ngletabular vein is the ma:jor structw:e in the area mapped•. This tabuIa:r vein is cut by high- angle faults. Low-angle Tabu.laI'Vein - The low-angle tabular vedmparallels the bedding plane of the limestone. The bedding consists of alternating beds of hornfels and limestone. As far as the writer has determined,the ve:tn has a hornfels hanging wall and a limestone footwall. The'beds' have 9 been compressed into several tight folds', which plunge to the south':" east.
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